Works in Progress Screening
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven – ROOM 208 – 3:00 PM
Join 6 documentary filmmakers as they present a short excerpt from a feature film in progress. They are looking for comments and criticism. It’s a chance to have your voice heard before the film is complete.
- Sanctuary of the Soul (Tom Ficklin) A glimpse at the sacred music performed in New Haven’s Black churches.\
- Questions of Justice, officers of color in the era of #BlackLivesMatter (Aaron Peirano Garrison/ Clark Burnet) This film unpacks complicated relationships between police and marginalized communities. We follow officers of color in the Era of Black Lives Matter, starting nationally and narrowing to New Haven, CT.
- Sounds of Silents (Carolyn Jacobs) An immersion into the world of musicians who play for sIlent films, with a focus on Connecticut resident Donald Sosin.
- For John Carlos: Your Family Album (Charles Musser) An investigation of family photographs and the family album as documents of the human experience.
- What It Takes (Gorman Bechard) A peek at the 5th rock documentary from Bechard. This time he focuses his camera on Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, a band from Chapel Hill, NC, who just signed to Bloodshot Records.
- Hard Travelling: Hoboes in America (Richard Wormser) The struggles of transient workers (the reserve army of labor) and their efforts to liberate themselves from the economic system that oppressed them.
FOOD HAVEN THE BIKE TOUR
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven – ROOM 208 – 7:00 PM
Prepare your tastebuds for an epicurean extravaganza. Ride to food destinations featured in the documentary Food Haven – including Geronimo, Thali and Miya’s – and meet local entrepreneurs, chefs, and culinary artists that make New Haven a true Food Haven.
The final destination for the Ride is the Whitney Humanities Center, and a free screening of Food Haven as part of NHdocs.
Farm Time (A Year on the Farm with Red Planet Vegetables) (David Wells, 2017) – 11min – World Premiere Follow Rhode Island farmers, Catherine Mardosa and Matt Tracy of Red Planet Vegetables, through all four seasons as they face the challenges and rewards of artisanal farming, while discussing their hopes and fears, motivations and misgivings as they put a face to the farmers who are at the core of the farm-to-table movement.
Food Haven (Jim O’Connor 2017) – 67min (Q&A with the filmmakers follows screening) A look into the ever-evolving food culture of New Haven Connecticut. A city that at one point was considered one of the most dangerous in America, has focused its efforts into becoming a diverse culinary mecca. Narrated by New Haven’s award winning chefs and diverse locals, enjoy a deeper look into a city that’s national recognition often gets left on the back burner. Small city, big flavor.
Event 3
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven - 9:00 PM
Voices from Kaw Thoo Lei (Martha Gorzycki, 2015) – 11min – Connecticut Premiere Karen People of Burma believe no one hears their pleas for help as their country remains ravaged by a war that has lasted more than six decades. Over 10,000 photos animate a landscape over which Voices from Kaw Thoo Lei may be heard.
The Lavender Scare (Josh Howard, 2017) – 77min – New Haven Premiere (Q&A with the filmmakers follows screening) With the United States gripped in the panic of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be “security risks” and orders the immediate firing of any government employee discovered to be gay or lesbian. It triggers a vicious witch hunt that lasts for forty years and ruins thousands of lives, while thrusting an unlikely hero into the forefront of what would become the modern LGBT rights movement.